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An Offensive Directed Against the Repetitious Mechanism of the UniverseTue, 01 Aug 2017 19:31:39 +0000hourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.8.1Comment on Deleuze, Nietzsche, and the Dice Throw by Egeiroshttps://www.apotheism.org/index.php/2017/07/29/deleuze-nietzsche-and-the-dice-throw/#comment-231
Tue, 01 Aug 2017 19:31:39 +0000https://www.apotheism.org/?p=410#comment-231I suppose I was speaking of a particular kind of transhumanism that is deeply linked with technocratic thought.

Determinism in the ultimate physical sense requires more thorough refutation, but I think such a position is at the very least, psychologically untenable.

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Tue, 01 Aug 2017 18:50:24 +0000https://www.apotheism.org/?p=410#comment-230Do you think “determinism” in the ultimate physical sense is incompatible with a world that is endlessly surprising to finite beings like ourselves, that is impossible to ever really control in an instrumentalist sense, so that “contingency and chance” always remain for us? I don’t see why the theoretical question of whether nature follows mathematical laws that are deterministic in the physicist’s sense should have any bearing on these latter questions (consider the butterfly effect in deterministic chaos theory, for example, which implies it’s impossible to predict how a system will behave unless you can control its initial state with infinite precision). I also don’t think transhumanism needs necessarily to be linked to the “instrumentalist” worldview, truly intelligent artificial beings need not be any more controllable or predictable than biological beings, and the creation and evolution of such beings could be seen to be just as much a part of the “eternally self- creating, the eternally self-destroying” creativity of nature as biological evolution (it is only human pretension that leads us to view our actions as not being a part of ‘nature’, of the ‘play of forces and waves of forces’).
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Fri, 30 Jun 2017 18:56:39 +0000https://www.apotheism.org/?p=295#comment-204[…] things but rather to fight Aristotelian notions of substance-attribute metaphysics and the bifurcation of nature. The mistake that people make in reading “Process and Reality” is to make process […]
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Wed, 15 Feb 2017 03:36:30 +0000https://www.apotheism.org/?p=205#comment-30> The best propaganda compels desirable action without asking its target to be ideologically sound in any way.
That’s exactly it. I’ve had friends who, while I could see them talk and act in certain ways, it was impossible to say if they really believed in anything, however small.
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Tue, 14 Feb 2017 23:13:49 +0000https://www.apotheism.org/?p=205#comment-29Memes as training regimes is a super astute observation. Check out Jacques Ellul’s book “Propaganda.” The best propaganda compels desirable action without asking its target to be ideologically sound in any way.
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Fri, 03 Feb 2017 19:28:31 +0000https://www.apotheism.org/?p=205#comment-16[…] Memes are commonly understood to be discrete units of culture that spread in a manner analogous to genes, mutating and spreading by selective processes. Memes that are best able to spread and continue out compete weaker memes, and thus only the most virulent memes survive. Memes can range from… – Read full story at Hacker News […]
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Thu, 19 Jan 2017 10:34:09 +0000https://www.apotheism.org/?p=177#comment-1[…] Philosophy, WhiteheadThe Philosophy of Organism Part 4: Creativity and The Phases of Concrescence […]
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